What is the best way to get a set of six pack abs?

Getting a nice set of abs requires that you take three important steps: go on a calorie restricted diet, burn energy with cardiovascular exercise and start a strength training routine in which you target your abdominals and obliques.

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A lot of people only focus on one of these, they do hundreds of sit ups and crunches. Unfortunately this does very little to solve the main reason why abs aren't visible: a high body fat percentage.

A calorie restricted diet forces your body to start using fat stores for energy. When this happens, you'll get a more toned appearance and your abs will start to show. Exercising that burns a high amount of calories also helps your body burn up its fat stores.

Running, biking, swimming and playing sports can all act as high calorie burning exercises. Finally, you need to target your abs by doing sit ups, crunches, leg lifts and twists (for the obliques).

If you target your abs before your body fat percentage is low, your abs will get strong, which is good, but they won't be visible because the excess body fat is covering them. You need to burn that fat before your abs come out by combining a calorie restricted diet with high intensity cardiovascular exercise.